Exploring our Genealogical Dance Journey

Starting Location: Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism/Fentster Gallery (402 College Street) at 1pm or Sheppard West Station at 12pm*

Ending Location: Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (750 Spadina Avenue) at 4pm or Sheppard West Station at 5pm*

Who: Queer and/or Trans Jewish Youth (Grades 5 to 12)

Cost: FREE

Join Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism, Machane Lev, Maple BBYO, and the MNJCC as we come together to view and discuss the new installation in the FENTSTER window gallery, HAMAPAH (meaning ‘map’ in Hebrew) created by the award-winning artist duo and married couple, Adam W. McKinney and Daniel Banks. Curator Evelyn Tauben will engage us in a conversation about how the exhibition explores identity, place and heritage as the artists map the narrative of a Black, Jewish, Indigenous Queer man. We’ll see a clip of the artists’ beautiful film, which they call a geneological dance journey as they traveled to and Adam danced in the places where he traces his ancestral heritage: West Africa, Poland and across the United States. In the words of FENTSTER: “the exhibition offers an opening for each of us to dance our own maps into existence.” This will inspire our afternoon together!

Following our visit to the Fentster Gallery, we will be walking to the MNJCC where participants will be provided with the opportunity to develop their own genealogical journey through dress up and dance.

*If you would prefer to take TTC together from/to Sheppard West Station, please email Rachel Goldberg (rachelgoldberg96@gmail.com).